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Allow ignoring columns 1-6 and 73-80 in Annotate

When using Team > Annotate (better known as "blame" in other scms), and someone / some tool removed or reordered sequence numbers, then the annotations show all the lines as being modified just because of these sequence number changes. But this...
11 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Source Control 1 Not under consideration

Links to files or folders under EWM source control shall become meaningful readable.

In the Web UI, you may browse down to a file under SCM. The link shown includes no meaningful information about the file, e.g., the path and file name. It shows only IDs. If you want to reference this file somewhere, e.g., in a mail or document, y...
11 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Source Control 1 Not under consideration

Improve filtering of Pending Changes View in EWM 7

Our team uses RTC/EWM for our software change management. We have since many years a well established procedure for delivering changes for our 200+ developers. The procedure is based on using the Pending Changes View in RTC 4. 5, and 6 (in RAD).Be...
about 3 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Source Control 5 Future consideration

Find local disk sandbox associated with repository workspace

why is it useful? currently if a developer has many repository workspaces say 10 repository workspaces then overtime the developer may forgot where the local sandbox loaded location is located on disk for each of the 10 repository workspaces. Alth...
7 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Source Control 1 Future consideration

Ability to set component to read only attached to streams

In ClearCase UCM you can configure a component to be set with read-only setting at a stream level which developers are not even able to modify read-only component in their workspace/sandbox. Similar functionality is required on RTC. Currently you ...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Source Control 2 Not under consideration

Create keywords to filled in automatically fields such as Author, Project Area, baseline, etc. when delivering change sets or downloading files

We need the ability to automatically fill in fields in files, such as: Author or last modifier Project Area Baseline: when applies etc. When a change set is checked-in or delivered, or when the files are downloaded using, for example, scm commands...
over 1 year ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Source Control 4 Future consideration

Enhance the EWM SCM custom attribute function with role/permissions controll

Actual the custom attribute function do not have any permission controll, not for an adminitrator who define these attributes, nor for the end user who set the attribute values. SCM custom attributes should be managed similar to work item attribut...
7 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Source Control 1 Future consideration

Enhance the EWM SCM custom attribute function with attribute data type of enumeration

Actual the custom attribute function only supports attribute based on the data type String. This sould be enhanced with other attribute data types as: Enumeration, with the option to create a specific enumeration value list. Customers in the Syste...
7 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Source Control 1 Future consideration

Permissions behavior with EWM in Linux

For example, I have a script in Linux with permissions of 755. I checked it in, Steve accepted my change, and on his side he does not have the same permissions. It appears that RTC only saves one set of permissions, I assume the "public" permissio...
7 months ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Source Control 1 Not under consideration

Organize components in streams in folders

Hello, At the moment in the Team Artifacts view, when a stream is expanded all components in this stream are immediately shown underneath. But when an integration stream has many components coming from different applications, we would like to ...
over 2 years ago in IBM Engineering - Workflow Management / Source Control 2 Not under consideration

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